Archive for the ‘Global’ Category

Searching in Singapore? Check your MOCCA.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

MOCCA is MediaCorp’s platform for classified advertising and online communities in Singapore. (’MOCCA’ stands for MediaCorp Online Communities and Classified Advertising.)
MediaCorp aims to build an online ecosystem of buying and selling with MOCCA.  MediaCorp recognizes that the future of classified advertising lies online. The trend is already evident in many cities around the world. Online […]

Odnoklassniki.ru Reaches 20 Million Users

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Update: When comScore reports that Facebook is the fastest growing social network in the world, it forgets to take into account data for Russia-originated social networks Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte. In fact, the fastest growing social network in the world is Odnoklassniki.ru. Its number of users has grown from 1.2 million in June 2007 to […]

Australia And The Semantic Web - Part 2

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Thanks to Kim Heras of TechNation
An Interview With David Petar Novakovic
This is Part 2 of a post on Australia and semantic apps. In Part 1, which you can find here, we were introduced to David Petar Novakovic, his work and semantic apps.
In Part 2 we look a little more closely at semantic apps and Australia’s […]

Search for music in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

‘Dhingana’, a word from Marathi language means joy, zeal, frenzy, and chaos.
No, we are not Jerry-David duo or Larry-Sergey buddies. We haven’t started Dhingana as a PhD thesis nor do we run our company in a garage. But we don’t deny the possibility of being one!  Source: Dhingana.
The only asset we can declare now is, […]

The first ever Luganda search engine

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Ugandans to search web content in local languages
Source: Ultimate Media
You know how to read and write in your local language, but you have been unable to use or search for information on the web because all search engine tools are in English? Not anymore.
A team of scientists and linguists from Makerere University and Rhodes University […]

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